1908

Clara Kilbourn - The Hutchinson News - ckilbourn@hutchnews.com

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NEW YORK CITY - The first attempt by suffragists to place their names on the voting list went down in defeat when 14 women tried in vain to induce election clerks to register their names. No violence occurred but the women were followed by photographers and a crowd of curious bystanders.

Julia Seaton Sears, head of the New Thought Church and School, led the women and demanded their names be allowed, based on the 14th Amendment and her having voted three times in Colorado. The officer who denied their request quoted a New York state election law that said an elector should be a male citizen.

Hutchinson schools reported an enrollment of 1,192 girls and 1,196 boys with more boys expected to enroll. "It is usually the boys who hang back," the city superintendent said. Tardiness was reported at all schools with the "worst" cases at the high school. Three pupils "felt the rod" during the first month, two at Sherman and another at Maple.

1933

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U. S. Chamber of Commerce reported there was reason to expect "strengthening business conditions" over the fall months. "It means that business activity advanced during those weeks of Sept. when it was slumping downward last year," the Associated Press said.

A total $398,735,000 in frozen deposits from a list of 376 banks was reported. It was estimated that depositors would receive approximately 50 percent if the banks carried out plans agreed upon when they were licensed.

SOUTHHAMPTON, ENGLAND - Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindberg took off from Stavanger, Norway, and landed at Woolston airport after "an uneventful flight."

A Garden City company began processing a record sugar beet crop expected to produce 15,000 tons of sugar.

Hutchinson's annual payroll increased by more than $75,000 with more than 900 people at work under the National Recovery Act aimed at recovery from the Great Depression. The numbers were expected to increase to $100,000 with 1,000 workers.

"The resulting problem now is to get that money into circulation so merchants, hard-hit by the depression can continue to meet payrolls, maintain shorter hours and add employees," a government spokesman said. A "Buy Now" theme assumed national scope.

1953

TV station KTVH jumped to 240,000-watt superpower with a targeted date of Oct. 1. The nearly tenfold power boost was expected throughout KTVH's central Kansas coverage area.

In Kingman, parking meters on a 6-month trial basis were placed within the city to decide whether to buy them with revenue or have them removed.

Hutchinson nurseryman C.D. Wagoner's proposed garden shop in the southwest corner of 30th and Plum hit a permanent snag when the city commission refused to rezone the lot from residential to neighborhood shopping.

Several months prior Wagoner had requested the rezoning but withdrew after area residents objected.

1983

President Ronald Reagan urged a nuclear arms "build-down" to the Soviet Union. The offer to be presented to the fifth round of strategic talks had bipartisan support in Washington. The proposal called for a reduction of nuclear warheads at 5 percent per year.

Hutchinson Community College trustees questioned, reworded and discussed but postponed a proposed long-range plan for the college

The plan defined "objectives and goals for the educational program, professional staff and institutional dynamics in addition to its relationship with the student and community."

A national immigration bill under discussion was delayed because of the amount of disagreement over several areas in the bill.

Former President Jimmy Carter announced plans for auctioning a pair of singer Willie Nelson's running shoes and four hickory chairs he carved with proceeds to go to the Carter Presidential Library. A Sotheby's spokeswoman set the value of the goods at $500,000 but the sale could bring twice that much.

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